A Wisconsin woman allegedly told her friends that she was responsible for starting a massive building fire that cost nearly $1 million in damages.
Ellen Stevens, 22, posted $250 bond after she was arrested for negligent handling of burning material on May 22. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, Stevens was one of four people seen on surveillance video leaving the property near an abandoned warehouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 20. At 6:10 p.m. that day, 911 received several calls about smoke coming from the four-story building, which had been condemned and deemed unsafe to enter.
The Milwaukee Fire Department had to extinguish the fire from the outside, which allowed the fire inside to become a five-alarm fire. Part of the building collapsed, requiring the entire structure to be demolished…